Sunday, June 11, 2017

Launch Day Blitz - Royal Treatment By Parker Swift

For five blissful months I've been engaged to Dylan Hale, the most handsome, commanding, and wickedly sexy duke in England. For five months I've woken up next to the man I love, indulged in secret trysts, and submitted to every delicious desire. Even better? We've managed to keep it hidden from everyone. That means no paparazzi scandals, no snide comments from Dylan's mother, and no harsh public scrutiny. It's been heaven, but with Dylan's royal responsibilities looming, our time alone is running out. And while I can't wait to be Dylan's wife, I'm terrified that becoming Dylan's duchess might mean losing myself.

I love the royal scandal series! every since the first book came out I have beeN hooked on Lydia and Dylan love story, so when I got the chance to read Royal Treatment the last book early I was thrilled and I dived into this book as soon as I could. In this book we follow Lydia and Dylan while they are engaged and all the drama that is a result of that . I feel like Lydia and Dylan are definitely a strong couple than they where in book 1 and are just more in love than ever , I just loved how matter what was thrown there way they didn't make it stop them from being together. The romance was sexy , swoon worthy and enchanting and I loved every minute of it !. Parker Swift definitely knows how to write excellent romance. Beside the romance there was so much more to this story ,there was never a dull moment and my eyes where just glued to the page . I am very sad that series is ending , there are so many scenes in this series that will replay in my head from time to time just because of how much I adored them , However I could not be happier with they way that Lydia and Dylan story concludes, in away it felt like everything came full circle . I cannot wait to see what Parker Swift will write next ,I just know it will be fantastic .If you are looking of sexy , addicting , swoon worthy contemporary romance then you should definitely pick up this book or if you have not read the other two books this series as soon as you can.

RATING

5/5 STARS

Excerpt

For the past five months, I’d taken my mission to
heart: Put yourself first. Enjoy the freedom of life out of
the spotlight. Get your career off the ground before it competes with running
an ancient estate and being on your husband’s arm.

For five months, I’d said yes to all things. Late
nights dancing with Fiona and Josh. Girlie nights with Emily. Paris for Fashion
Week. Long runs in the park by myself without paparazzi trailing me. Late
nights working on the launch of Fiona’s online store. Dylan and I had kept our
relationship low profile so that I could do all those things, so I wouldn’t get
sucked into the aristocratic machine, so I could move freely and make choices
without fear of how it would look or who would be watching. And it had been
great. It did feel freeing, like I’d been slipping into
a version of adulthood I’d always been waiting for, figuring out who I wanted
to be in the world, taking a deep breath while I thought about the reality of
being a duchess. But no matter what I did, I was always happy to go home to
Dylan, to find him there, to let him find me there. Nothing had changed in that
regard—I wanted to be with him.

I had figured I’d wake up one day and just know, now’s the time. And on that day I’d replace soon
with yes. We’d make a big announcement, open the door,
I’d officially be Dylan’s fiancée and soon after his wife, with everything that
came with it. But that aha moment hadn’t happened yet, and now there was this.
This decision, going to New York for six months, would change everything. If I
said no to Hannah’s offer and stayed in London, I knew that, in some
plates-shifting kind of way, it meant that I was ready to say yes to Dylan, to
all of this, to everything he was asking for. But if I said yes to Hannah, to
effectively leaving behind everything I’d built in London for a half a year in
New York, my long engagement would be longer than I’d ever really wanted it to
be.

With each block I passed through, my mind changed,
I swayed back and forth. Yes, I’d go to New York for six months. No, I’d stay
in London with Dylan. Yes. No. Yes. No. It felt like everything was pitted
against one another. London versus New York. My career versus my relationship.
My present versus my future.

I was swimming so feverishly in my own mind, my
heels clacking on the pavement, my bag swinging against my hip, that didn’t
realize I was standing in front of our house.

Our house.

I hadn’t walked to the store. I’d walked home.

As I looked in the window, I could see Dylan in
the library on the ground floor. It looked like he was searching for a book,
his arm stretched up to one of the higher shelves. He’d been working on a
restoration recently and had been researching like a madman. He was wearing
jeans and a T-shirt that fitted his muscular frame perfectly. His hair was
tousled, uneven from running his fingers through it. He looked at the book in
his hands and then stared into the room, thinking. I knew that in a moment he
would begin absent-mindedly spinning the pencil in his hand, tapping it against
his shoulder, deep in thought. I knew, without looking, that his feet would be
bare. I knew there was probably a half-consumed cup of tea on a stool by his
drafting table. I knew him.

The beauty I saw when I looked through that window
made my chest tighten. I was looking into a home that had become mine, ours. I was looking at my
future.

About the Author

Parker Swift grew up in Providence, Rhode Island, and then grew up again in New York, London, and Minneapolis and currently lives in Connecticut. She has spent most of her adult life examining romantic relationships in an academic lab as a professor of social psychology. Now, she's exploring the romantic lives of her fictional characters in the pages of her books. When she's not writing, she spends her time with her bearded nautical husband and being told not to sing along to pop music in the car by her two sons.